Three months later and no response to my above problem.
Thank goodness! I got it resolved with All-in-One WP Migration.
Just a note for moving an existing WP site with content. Backup all posts and pages, export them first before moving files via ftp. When all fails you can always import your data/posts.
My problem was database specific, the new host couldn't import all tables.
It's resolved and happy that not much was lost.